Incident report · read from OpenAI's status page

OpenAI incident: Unable to open shared ChatGPT Project using direct link

Ongoing since 02:21 UTC (5 h 53 m so far), impact minor, affecting Conversations.

Timeline

1. 10 Sep 2026 at 02:21 UTC investigating

   We are investigating the issue for the listed services.

2. 10 Sep 2026 at 06:01 UTC identified

   We are still implementing the mitigation.

Affected components

• ChatGPT · Conversations: degraded · still in this state when the provider last said

What the crowd did

• 123 clicks, 5 zombies at their worst, 14 breaches, over 3 h 10 m — the siege in full

That is this site's own record of the crowd at OpenAI's gate, not anything OpenAI published.

Source

OpenAI's own report of this incident, on OpenAI's status page. This page is a record of OpenAI's own report; where the two disagree, theirs is right.

Last checked 10 Sep 2026 at 08:15 UTC.

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